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I decided that my current TrueNAS CORE server was getting a little long in the teeth (ASRock Rack E3C224D21, i3-4150 CPU, 16GB DDR3 ECC UDIMMS (2x8GB), 4xWD Red Pro 8T, boot and 'fastpool' on SATA SSDs) and decided to build something with a bit more punch.
The new machine is an ASRock Rack X470D4U (would have been the X570D4U if I could find one in Sweden), Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, 64GB DDR4 ECC UDIMMS (2x32GB), LSI 9211-8i HBA, boot to reuse 2 x 64GB Crucial SSDs, fastpool to use two new 256GB NVMe SSDs on add-in card, previous fastpool (on aData SATA SSDs to be retired) main pool on the 4x8TB WD Red Pro disks.
I've used the SilverStone CS831 chassis with a 700W SilverStone SFX power supply. I'm fully aware of the challenges with disk cooling that this case poses and have been carefully sealing up everywhere air can enter except for the drive bays as I've been putting it together. CPU cooling is an AIO liquid cooler with a 240mm radiator as there's no reasonable alternative which will fit in the available space. I've also added two 120mm Noctua Industrial fans which can spin at 3000 rpm if needed. All in all, I can pull lots of air in through the drive bays and will initially put two drives in each disk enclosure to spread out the disks. The HBA is now flashed to IT firmware and a 40mm fan has been screwed on top of the heatsink.
What I can't decide about is if I should stay on the FreeBSD version of TrueNAS or migrate to SCALE while I have the opportunity. (I'm assuming here that I can just export my configuration from CORE and reload it on SCALE so that my main pool is recognised and imported on the new server, just like if I had made the decision to use CORE. I've also exported the two jails that I run on the current server (urbackup and Jellyfin), but I guess I can't just import a FreeBSD jail into SCALE.)
I don't mind having to re-create my jails, but it will be a pain to lose my watched/unwatched status for the umpteenth time, on Jellyfin.
So I'd like to ask the community: If you were in my shoes, what would you do? Stay on CORE or migrate to SCALE?
The new machine is an ASRock Rack X470D4U (would have been the X570D4U if I could find one in Sweden), Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, 64GB DDR4 ECC UDIMMS (2x32GB), LSI 9211-8i HBA, boot to reuse 2 x 64GB Crucial SSDs, fastpool to use two new 256GB NVMe SSDs on add-in card, previous fastpool (on aData SATA SSDs to be retired) main pool on the 4x8TB WD Red Pro disks.
I've used the SilverStone CS831 chassis with a 700W SilverStone SFX power supply. I'm fully aware of the challenges with disk cooling that this case poses and have been carefully sealing up everywhere air can enter except for the drive bays as I've been putting it together. CPU cooling is an AIO liquid cooler with a 240mm radiator as there's no reasonable alternative which will fit in the available space. I've also added two 120mm Noctua Industrial fans which can spin at 3000 rpm if needed. All in all, I can pull lots of air in through the drive bays and will initially put two drives in each disk enclosure to spread out the disks. The HBA is now flashed to IT firmware and a 40mm fan has been screwed on top of the heatsink.
What I can't decide about is if I should stay on the FreeBSD version of TrueNAS or migrate to SCALE while I have the opportunity. (I'm assuming here that I can just export my configuration from CORE and reload it on SCALE so that my main pool is recognised and imported on the new server, just like if I had made the decision to use CORE. I've also exported the two jails that I run on the current server (urbackup and Jellyfin), but I guess I can't just import a FreeBSD jail into SCALE.)
I don't mind having to re-create my jails, but it will be a pain to lose my watched/unwatched status for the umpteenth time, on Jellyfin.
So I'd like to ask the community: If you were in my shoes, what would you do? Stay on CORE or migrate to SCALE?